Colloidal dispersion product



Patented Feb. 3, 1931 SAMUEL CABOT, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL CABOT, INQ, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS COLLOIDAL DISPERSION PRODUCT No Drawing. Original application filed January 31, 1925, Serial No. 6,016. Il ivided and this application W filed February 7, 1927. Serial No. 166,596.

The production of certain matter, notably mineral matter and certain organlc matters in a state of colloidal fineness is very desirable ticularly those of amorphous structure, are

brought into a state of colloidal fineness and maintained in that condition permanently and in that condition may be converted into many useful products of high eificiency.

While I propose to discuss my invention principally in terms of the pigment art, I would point out at the Very outset that in addition to paints, stains, enamels, dyes and other coloring media, my invention is applicable to the production of dispersed solids for many other purposes, as in the case of catalysts which may be eflectively extended for influencing reactions in difierent industries or in dispersing solids other than pigments, as for example, where it is desired to disperse mica in a dielectric structural matcrial for insulation.

As the utility of my invention is of immediate importance in the pigment'field and as that field well illustrates the principles in- 'volved, I will proceed to discuss my lnvention in its relation to pigment dispersion, it being understood that other similar mineral or organic matters may be treated by following the principles as laid down in connection with that art. In this connection, I refer to my prior application, Serial No. 6016, filed January 31, 1925, now Patent No. 1,662,999 of Mar. 20, 1928, in which both method and product were discussed and from which the subject of the present case has been divided.

As therein suggested, the desired pigment or solid matter is in a state of colloidal dispersion rendered thus by an adhesive and cohesive plastic whose normal cohesive and adhesive tenacity is superior to the interparticle cohesion of the pigment or solid materials. Where the product is to be extended or further dispersed as in the case of a paint or stain, this plastic is in accordance with my invention, a colloid dispersible ina selected discolloidal partic Types of these protective colloids vary with the dispersion medium when it is desired to use the material in a further dispersed state as for example a liquid state. For liquid hydrocarbons and animal and vegetable oils, acceptable colloids are drying or semi-drying oils polymerized by heat treatment or oxidized or for alcohol dispersions the colloids might be cellulose nitrates or acetates.

The number of these products which are natural organosols in different organic dispersion media is very great, and I am not to be limited to any specific dispersion medium or group of media, or to liquids or organic liquids, or to any colloid or group of colloids. Organosol colloids difier from hydrosols in that they are much less active in causing colloidal dispersion of mechanical suspensions, especially when dilute. In fact, when in dilute or highly dispersed condition if they es tend to attach themselves to the particles in mechanical suspension at all, they are apt tocause flocculation. As a result, suspended mineral solids .are almost unknownin colloidal dispersion as organosols and are only produced by very indirect processes or occur but very occasionally accidentally in nature, though they are very common as hydrosols. In my products the solid particles are dispersed and the colloid peptized by them, and the colloid envelopes them, preventing them from clotting together again.

Lyophile dispersoid (polymerized drying oil) is preferably used by me as a protective colloid because of its advantage in manu-. facture acting as a disintegrator' for the.

clumps of pigment. As such it must be of s a sufficient cohesion so that the disruptive action of the kneading process will tend to break apart the pigment clumps rather than to pull apart the colloid. The best proportion is one in'which only sulficient dispersion somewhat.

medium is used to bring the colloid from a hard or brittle gel condition to a plastic adhesive and cohesive one, and adding to this mixture as much solid as can be readily worked in a putty chaser, and to give maxlmum plasticity but only as much as to give continuous interfaces with the colloid. It will be found that after the mass has become kneaded a few minutes it will become more and more plastic.

The ratio of solid to colloid may be varied To et good results there must beenough colloi to envelop and be adsorbed by the surfaces of the ultimate colloidally dispersed solid.

The solid has, under proper conditions the striking efiect on the colloidal gel or tending to break down its gel structure, rendering it more plastic and less elastic, and making it capable of dispersing into the dispersion medium more readil For instance, a stifi' colloidal 'elly whic cannot be dispersed in a li uid is ersion medium by any usual metho may e plasticized by kneading with a powdered solid and readily dispersed together with the solid in liquid by suitable means. llhe gel has the property of plasticizing a combination of solid and liquid :irhich would otherwise remain a damp pow- After the kneading process the plastic mass may be extended to any desired extent, either in the putty chaser or any suitable mixer, with any medium in which the colloid will disperse.

lWhen extended the product will usually be found to contain a small amount of granular coarse particles and from T0% to 10Q% of fine colloidally dispersed particles of varying size, which are often so fine in the case of pigments as to give a transparent effect and yet im arting their color to the whole thus close y resembling oganic dyes.

A characteristic product may e example of one part by weight of linseed oil jelly (containin about 30% turpentine) three parts of sue a pigment as Titanox (a combination of titanium oxide and barium made for pigment partic espf colloidal fineness insoluble in said dispersion medium held in sus' pension in said medium by said oil.

2. A paint, stain or the like comprising an organic dispersion medium, a, polymerized oil dispersed in said medium, and pigment particles of colloidal fineness insoluble in said dispersion medium held in suspensionin said medium by said oil.

3. A paint, stain or the like comprising an organic dispersion medium, a colloid of the groug'consisting of a polymerized oroxidize oil dispersed in sa1d medium, and pigment articles of colloidal fineness insoluble in sai dispersion medium. held in suspension in said medium bysaid oil.

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sulphate. To the pigment and colloid, plus liquid, when headed, may be added such quantities of raw or boiled linseed oiland turpentine or solvent naphtha as will make a good workable paint, and suficient dryer as will make it dry at the rate re uired.

Such a product will be foun to difier from a paint made with the same ingredients but b the usual grinding processes in that: v

(1) t e pigment stays permanently in suspension; (2) it is more liquid; (3) it has more tinting power; (42) it has more spread ingpower; (5) it spreads more evenly; (6) it adheres more strongl to the surface; (7)K on porous surfaces the xative does not sin inand leave the pigment so that chalking is largely elimhated 

